RABINER N. MADAN
Dr. Rabinder N. Madan, Ph.D. Fellow IEEE, is a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research. He received his B.Sc. (Hons)
and M.Sc. in Physics from the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and a Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University.
In his current position as Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, he directs and manages programs in Tracking,
Networked Sensing, Signal Processing, Information Fusion and Surveillance. In the past he has held faculty positions at
the Universities of California, Massachusetts and North Carolina and was a Senior Scientist at Hughes Aircraft Co. His
interests and publications are in information sciences, signal processing, communications theory, nonlinear phenomenon,
variation and optimization principles, scattering theory and principles of radar. He maintains an Ex-Officio membership
in SPTM, interacts with the signal processing community through his participation and support for students at ICASSP and
other signal processing related workshops and conferences. In 1989 he was awarded the IETE J. C. Bose Memorial Award for
the best paper in Science and Engineering. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics
and its Applications. He serves as the Editor-in -Chief of the Journal of the Franklin Institute.